Cope, Colorado
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Cope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80812. The Survey maps it on the Cope quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,406 feet above sea level.
On record in Cope
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Farmers State Bank of Copelisted 2017
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Limon quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Cope quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Bonny Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cope between 2010 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Joes Fire Department | N/A |
| 29 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
Storms near this place
42 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cope in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | WeatherLink Station near Cope Colorado. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Cope | - | A tornado touched down and caused extensive damage to a carport and garage. One pine tree was uprooted. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Cope | - | One of three landspouts that formed in an open field in close proximity to one another. |No damage was observed. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Cope | - | The last in a series of three landspouts touched down in close proximity to one another. |It touched down in an open corn field and likely produced some crop damage. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | Intense thunderstorm winds blew a grain bin across County Roads AAA and 23. In addition several power lines were knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Cope | - | A small tornado touched down but did no damage. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Cope | - | A tornado touched down briefly but did no damage. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a mobile home. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cope | - | A severe thunderstorm, producing very large hail and damaging winds, pummeled sections of Logan, Phillips and Washington Counties. Several homes and vehicles were damaged. In addition, several farmers suffered extensive crop damage. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Cope | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Cope | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Cope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5168327 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 195026. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




